INFUSIBLE INK COASTERS

Learn how to make these beautiful Infusible Ink Ceramic Coasters – Great for gifts for all kinds of occasions. They can be used at home or work and even an RV! They are very easy to personalize and have quickly become one of my favorite craft projects! I’m quite certain you will fall in love with just how easy these are to create with love ♥ I teach you how to easily make Infusible Ink Coasters and include a video as well.

I’ve made quite a few coasters since Cricut came out with the Infusible Inks. If you missed my Infusible Ink Square Coasters, you can find them here. Both of Cricut’s Coaster Blanks (Ceramic Round & Square Cork) have a specific coating for the Infusible Ink to adhere to. So be sure to pick your coaster blanks wisely. You can not go into Home Depot or Lowe’s ETC and pick up a Ceramic title and have a positive outcome with Infusible Ink.

Supplies for Infusible Ink Ceramic Coasters

Table of Contents

• Infusible Ink Coaster Blanks

• Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets

• Standard Grip Cutting Mat

• White Cardstock

• Cricut Easy Press 2

• Easy Press Mat

• Cricut tools, specifically tweezers

• Cricut Explore Air or Cricut Maker

• Butcher Paper and a lint-free cloth (both come in the Infusible Ink Transfer sheet box)

• Link to my Cricut Design Space File for this project

The Process

SPECIAL NOTE: Before handling Infusible Ink, wash your hands with soap/water to remove anything such as lotions that may harm your beautiful design.

Infusible Ink can be applied in several different ways on Ceramic Coasters.

Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets
Infusible Ink Pens
Using a Cricut Easy Press 1 or 2

For this tutorial, I’ll be using only the Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets. But wanted you to be aware you could draw/color using the Infusible Ink Pens or have your Cricut draw with the Infusible Ink Pens on laser paper and then heat press your very own artwork to the Infusible Ink Coaster Blanks. How awesome is that! (I will have a tutorial on this soon)

Also, Check out this creative way to use the Infusible Ink Pens! and another creative way to use Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets

Designing

The ceramic blank coasters are 3.6″ in size so this is the size circle shape I chose in Design Space. Then I hit the duplicate button 3 times to end up with 4 perfectly sized circles.

I then found a font I like and typed and sized the words I wanted. I then centered the word in the middle with the align tool and sliced the word out of the circle. So easy!

Once done with all four designs you can click on make it and be sure to mirror the design for all “Infusible Ink Projects” and choose “Infusible Ink Transfer Sheet” for the material.

Cutting Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets

Place Infusible Ink Transfer sheet ink side up with liner side down on “standard” grip cutting mat.

Load the mat and the “fine-point blade” into the cutting machine and press “load”

Once the go light starts flashing, press go

press go so the cutting machine will cut the infusible ink transfer sheet for you

Now that the cut is complete, hit the load button to remove your mat and admire the cut circles on the Infusible Ink Transfer sheet.

completed cut circles on the infusible ink transfer sheet

Now turn the mat upside down and carefully peel back the mat while holding the transfer sheet flat down on your surface

turn standard grip mat upside down on desktop to pull away from the infusible ink transfer sheet

Be careful not to curl the mat too tight, just go a little at a time 😊

be careful not to curl your mat too much

Now you can cut with scissors the excess Infusible Ink Transfer sheet to save for another project. I roll mine back up and store it back inside the plastic roll and box it came in. This will protect it until the next use.

cut with scissors the excess transfer sheet

Weeding Infusible Ink

You will not gently roll each piece to reveal where the lines are to weed your design. When complete the only pieces left on your liner will be your design. You will be weeding/removing all the rest of the pieces you don’t need.

weeding the infusible ink transfer sheet design

Once the letters are weeded out, find the edge of each circle and bend slightly and tear towards the outside

weeding the outside of the infusible ink transfer sheet

Then pull off the outside piece in one strip until removed

removing the rest of the excess transfer sheet

Applying Infusible Ink to Ceramic Coasters

Now is a great time to check Cricut’s Heat Guide for your precise settings. Cricut has done a fantastic job also showing how to layer your project for optimum outcomes.

Cricut’s Heat Guide is literally as simple as 1 2 3

Select which press you are using
Select which heat transfer material you are using
Select which base material you are using

Then hit “Apply”

First I laid my Easy Press Mat on my desktop then put my 80# white cardstock on top of it to protect any ink from getting on my Easy Press Mat.

lay white card stock on top of easy press mat to keep ink from getting on your easy press mat

Now lay your Infusible Ink Transfer Design on top of the cardstock with liner side down and ink side facing up (I will be pressing 4 coasters at once)

Place infusible ink transfer sheet ink side up

Place your Ceramic Coaster Blank upside down on top of the Infusible Ink Transfer sheet design and carefully center it.

putting ceramic coaster on top of infusible ink transfer sheet design

You have not used heat yet so it is ok to be SURE you have it centered perfectly at this point. It won’t hurt anything to adjust the movement a bit 😉

line up ceramic coaster on top of infusible ink design

Line up all four ceramic coasters

all four ceramic coasters are ready to press

Grab your butcher paper from your Infusible Ink Transfer Sheet box

Copper Burnish Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets — I am using the top color from the box called: Copper Burnish, it’s so pretty!!!

pulling out butcher paper from the Infusible Ink Transfer sheet box

cover your infusible ink ceramic coasters with butcher paper

Almost done! All we need now is the Heat Press applied. Follow the Heat Guide settings for which Easy Press you have.

Be very careful to place Easy Press straight down to cover all four coasters. Set the timer and do not move the press until the timer is done and then carefully pull Easy Press straight back up and back on the stand.